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Title

Piyuṭim ketav yad
פיוטים כתב יד

Authors

• Amar, D. A
  עמאר, דוד א׳
• Masʻud ḥazaḳ
  מסעוד חזק
• Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund

Other related names

• Avraham ben ʻAlon, former owner
  אברהם בן עלון,
• Ṿizman, Zakhuv Yaʻaḳov ben Khalifah, former owner
  ויזמאן, יעקב זאכוב בן כליפה,
• Hazote, Elie, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 509
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977507852603681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1110619827

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Hebrew, with some passages in Judeo-Arabic (f. 4v, 178r-178v)

Origin

Date

approximately 1880

Summary

This is a manuscript of collected Hebrew poetry, or piyutim, from the Moroccan tradition of piyut. Many of the poems are written by David ʻAmar (a 19th century Moroccan paytan), as evidenced by his name appearing in acrostic forms (such as the poem ʻIdan duḥḳah, which has a bold title of Daṿid [ʻAmar] ḥazaḳ, f. 95v-96r); likely, the manuscript was written over a period of time. It appears as if the manuscript was meant as a source of Moroccan and even Casablanca piyut; other authors mentioned include Masʻud (or Massoud) ḥazaḳ, who wrote Piyuṭ ha-RaSh.b.I. (after Shimon bar Yoḥai, f. 94v-95r); Yaʻaḳov ha-levi, writing a poem in honor of R. Yitsḥaḳ Nahon (f. 56v-7v; he lived in Tetouan, Morocco, in the 19th century); a poem in honor of R. ʻAmram ibn Dayan (and naming him as the same as Amram ben Diwan, a cabalist and emissary for the settlement in Jerusalem (Jerusalem 1740 - Ouazzane 1782, f. 151r-151v); and a piyut by "Shelomoh" for the coming of the Messiah (f. 178r-178v). Written in a Moroccan cursive script with headings and highlighted words in square script; the bulk of the manuscript was written in ink (f. 1r-179r) and the end written in pencil (f. 179v-194v). The folios are commercial lined paper and are yellowed and brittle; the volume is bound in boards with a deteriorating brown-leather spine, likely original. Written in Morocco, likely in Casablanca. There is a table of contents in the beginning (f. 1r-4r) and at the end (f. 182r-194v).

Extent

194 leaves : 163 x 91 (135 x 85) mm bound to 169 x 100 mm

Support

Paper

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Zakhuv Yaʻaḳov Ṿizman, son of Rabbi Khalifah, of Casablanca (inscription inside front board, f.4v).
   
• Formerly owned by Avraham ben ʻAlon (inscription dated 1928, f. 4v).
   
• Formerly owned by Elie Hazote, Casablanca (stamp inside front board; approximately 1940).
   
• Sold by Mizrahi Bookstore (Brooklyn, N.Y.), 2019.
   

Subjects topical

• Nahon, Yitsḥaḳ,--19th century
• ʻAmram ben Diṿan,--1739 or 1740-1781
• Jewish religious poetry, Hebrew
• Piyutim
• Jews--Morocco--Casablanca--History--Sources

Genres

• Poems
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--19th century
• Manuscripts, Judeo-Arabic--19th century

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